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- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Restoring the public finances is the best way to aid growth, as has been said by the OECD, the World Economic Forum and any other economic advices we have. We must restore economic fortunes. We are borrowing â¬18 billion this year. Some â¬15 billion is for day-to-day expenses and â¬3 billion is for the banks. We are paying our gardaÃ, teachers, nurses and ourselves from that borrowed...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Please allow me to speak.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Does Senator Walsh allow anyone to speak other than himself?
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: If we are to restore our economic fortunes, we need to cut our cloth according to our measure. That means we must reduce that â¬15 billion we are borrowing to a normal 3% of GDP. That is our target by 2015. That is what we are bound to do under the stability pact up to which we have signed and what this Government is going to do. To do that, we will have to cut expenditure. We have said...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will not come back to be shouted down.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will finish. I had hoped to have had constructive engagement in this Chamber because it really has-----
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: This Chamber has a job of work to do because a decision will be made on its future next year. It really must work and people should not be shouted down like in a poor local authority.
- Written Answers — Infrastructure Investment Plan: Infrastructure Investment Plan (23 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Capital Investment Framework that Government agreed and I published on 10 November, sets the broad direction, level and sectorial split of investment of the years 2012 to 2016. All individual project proposals are subject to relevant value for money arrangements, including detailed appraisal - prior to the commitment of significant Exchequer resources. The conduct of individual...
- Written Answers — Infrastructure Investment Plan: Infrastructure Investment Plan (23 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In undertaking the recent capital investment reviews, each Government Department was requested to prepare a submission providing the following: · a description of the high level objective to be achieved in relation to each programme; · an outline of the rationale for Government intervention; · an assessment of the consistency of the investment programme with the Programme for Government;...
- Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (23 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The programme measures announced in Budget 2011 were designed to yield an additional level of savings in 2012 of just over â¬80 million. The 2011 Budget also included a multi-annual Employment Control Framework through which public pay bill savings can be achieved over a number of years by reducing public sector staffing numbers, subject to further policy decisions at Departmental and...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (23 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Government recently announced (17th November, 2011) that the Decentralisation Programme should be cancelled in the light of the budgetary and staffing outlook. Those projects where there is no permanent accommodation or advance party in place are to be cancelled. Details of the cancelled projects, together with the moves involved, are set out at Table 1. Projects for which permanent...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (23 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: While there is no common European system of resource accounting, there is a trend internationally towards accrual accounting in the public sector. In the Irish Public Sector, a mix of accounting bases is currently in use. Accrual accounting is already the norm in the commercial sector and has been introduced in much of the non-commercial public sector outside the civil service. The Programme...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (23 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question no money has been paid out in severance packages to retired and retiring chief executives of State or semi State companies under the aegis of my Department. The only body under the aegis of my Department that can be classed as a State or semi State Company is An Post National Lottery which is classed as a commercial semi-State company. The current chief...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The IMF.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil left a hole in the budget.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Mattie never supported that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Has Deputy Ferris forgotten? Captain Nemo.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Of course, we did. It was the law.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The previous three budgets cover the period from the Supplementary Budget in April 2009 to Budget 2011 which was announced in December last. Significant reductions have been effected to the pay, expenses and pensions of Oireachtas members in the period and since the current Government took up Office. The pay rates of Oireachtas members have been reduced through the application of the...
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (24 Nov 2011)
Brendan Howlin: My Department is reviewing, in liaison with the OPW and the relevant Departments, the viability and future prospects of 22 decentralisation projects. I will bring proposals to Government later in the year in relation to these. These projects, detailed in the table, include those where temporary accommodation was provided for advance parties of various sizes pending permanent accommodation for...